BOOKS

The Siren's Call - Chris Hayes

Chris Hayes

The Siren's Call looks at how the attention economy monopolizes our attention in ways that we don't want. We don't really want to doom scroll, but it's hard to fight the generated content that gets p

RECOMMENDED NONFICTION Attention Productivity Social Media
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Making it So - Patrick Steward

Patrick Stewart

This was a wonderful look back at the career of Patrick Stewart. I love that he was comfortable enough to share many embarrassing stories, and reflect on how uptight he was in the beginning of his ca

RECOMMENDED NONFICTION Memoir
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Onyx Storm - Rebecca Yarros

Rebecca Yarros

This book is much slower for the first 2/3rds than the first two are. The world now knows about the real fight against Venin, and has some type of truce between formerly warring nations to push back

RECOMMENDED FICTION Fantasy
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Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros

Rebecca Yarros

Iron Flame continues from the cliff hanger in Fourth Wing, with Violet coming to grips that her brother is in fact alive and the love of her life is leading a revolution because society has been dece

RECOMMENDED FICTION Fantasy
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Wind and Truth - Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson

The Fifth instalment of Sanderson’s Stormlight archive starts to reach further beyond Roshar and bring the full Cosmere into the folds of this story. At over 1300 pages, I’ve spent quite a while work

RECOMMENDED FICTION Fantasy
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The Big Fix - Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar

Denise Hearn, Vass Bednar

Denise and Vass us this book to take a look at the regulatory framework that Canada uses to evaluate competition and monopoly powers. While I knew that many companies owned many brands that "competed

MAYBE NONFICTION Big Tech Canada Competition Monopoly
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Co-Intelligence - Ethan Mollick

Ethan Mollick

AI has come for our world, whether we like it or not. In Co-Intelligence, Ethan Mollick, takes a positive look at what AI could mean for our lives. He explores how to maximize it's effectiveness for

MAYBE NONFICTION AI Big Tech Technology
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A System for Writing - Bob Doto

Bob Doto

Bob Doto's, A System for writing is a good entry into the world of note-taking books. He is concise and direct while still hitting all the high points I think need to be hit to create a good practice

MAYBE NONFICTION PKM Writing Zettelkasten
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The Language of the Night - Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

This is a compilation of many essays by Le Guin on writing and writing science fiction in particular. She deals with the pronouns used in sci-fi to describe characters, with special updated notes cov

MAYBE NONFICTION Essay Science Fiction Writing
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The Courage to Be Disliked - Kishimi & Koga

Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi

The Courage to be Disliked is a discussion between a philosopher and a young adult who comes to challenge the philosopher on the validity of their ideas. The philosopher has taken Alfred Adler's psyc

MAYBE NONFICTION Philosophy Psychology
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